Creative and Performing Arts 1

Description

This course introduces areas that are fundamental to the Creative and Performing Arts including Theatre, Performance, Drama, Visual Arts and Sound in a variety of contemporary cultural contexts. The course introduces an overview to 20th and 21st century aesthetics and forms and some of their precedents, approaches to the use of space, place and time in performance-making and art, processes of collaboration, and basic approaches to constructing events, performances, and artworks using sound, gesture, text and image.

Availability

Ourimbah

Semester 1 - 2015

Callaghan

Semester 1 - 2015

Learning Outcomes

1. A basic critical appreciation of the relationship between words, texts, sounds, images, space and gesture.

2. The ability to identify the stages and benchmarks of the collaborative process.